from oregon. >> that's pretty amazing the journey he went on. thank you for watching at 6:00. the news continues streaming on cbsn bay area. you can find it on the kpix 5 news app. the "cbs evening news" is coming up nex >> we'll captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight, the first wave of johnson & johnson single-shot vaccine is on its way to americans, as health officials warn variants could threaten our pandemic progress. millions of doses leave the warehouse headed across the country. freezer boxes signed and sealed but even with that promising news, the concern tonight that the number of deaths and new infections have ticked up. plus why is there a decline in testing here in america? sexual harassment investigation. tonight a second woman alleges new york governor andrew cuomo has failed to take responsibility for what she calls his predatory behavior. we'll speak with a former staffer.

water crisis, the city where more than 160,000 residents haven't had clean drinking water for weeks, including a pregnant woman using buckets to flush the toilet. >> i'm really scared. >> o'donnell: state of emergency as flood waters rise in kentucky. rolling back voter rights, the republican push in more than 40 states to limit voting access. the royal tell-all. prince harry and meghan markle sit down with oprah. he explains the fear that led them to flee the u.k. >> my biggest concern was history repeating itself. >> o'donnell: order in the operating room? the stunning moment a plastic surgeon appeared for traffic court while performing surgery. lady gaga's dog walker speaks out. what he says about his very close call with death. and how an innovative idea at a texas high school is helping feed hungry students. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital.

>> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin with breaking news in a startling new warning tonight from the c.d.c. that the u.s. could potentially face another deadly surge of coronavirus. as we come on the air tonight, doses of the third vaccine approved for use here in the u.s. are now rolling on to jets and into trucks shipping out across the u.s. johnson & johnson says about 4 million doses of the vaccine it developed which requires just a single shot will arrive at vaccination centers nationwide in the next few days. that new vaccine comes at the same time that the c.d.c. is sounding the alarm over a new increase in infections and deaths, potentially caused by those highly contagious variants. the head of the c.d.c. says she's worried that progress against the virus is now stalling, warning that if states start loosening restrictions on masks and public gatherings, the country could lose hard-earned ground in the fight against the virus and face another new surge. well, tonight, the rate of new

cases of the virus are now hovering around 70,000 a day, a tipping point, doctors say, that could lead to explosion of new new infections if americans let down their guard. we've got a lot of new reporting for you and your family. our team is standing by, cbs's errol barnett is leading off our coverage from kentucky, where the doses of the vaccine are shipping out tonight. good evening, errol. >> reporter: good evening, norah. this ups cargo hold is inside one of the aircraft that will be filled with this new vaccine and other important shipments before distributing it across the country. one staffer telling me tonight he is relieved his elderly relatives are getting vaccinated and he gets to be part of this effort. ( cheers and applause ) a shout of hope as the rollout begins. johnson & johnson's vaccine now set to be shipped across the country. proven in tests to be 85% effective against severe illness, it's the first single- dose vaccine. >> we're on track to deliver 4

million within the next couple of days, 20 million by the month of march, and we'll have 100 million doses between now and the end of june. >> reporter: this comes as more than 50 million americans have already received at least one vaccine dose from moderna and pfizer and, as the number of new covid cases nose dives, 73% in the past two months. but covid cases and deaths have plateaued, at levels much higher than before the last devastating surge. >> please hear me clearly -- at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. >> reporter: tonight houston becoming the first u.s. city to see cases of all the reported variants, including those first found in california, new york, the u.k., brazil and south africa. also tonight, another concern -- covid testing is down 23% since inauguration day. some testing sites empty. >> it's like a ghost town,

there's nothing there. >> reporter: or turned into mega vaccination sites. >> if we did see another surge we won't be able to track it and we're not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: schools opening in marin county and in san francisco, some high schoolers are back. >> we'll have a small class but i think it will be better than staying at home. >> reporter: as for the vaccines themselves, they can't come soon enough, especially in new york city, which identified its first covid case one year ago today. since then, nearly 30,000 have died from the virus. >> we don't have enough vaccine. every day, someone's not vaccinated, they're in danger. when they are vaccinated -- they're protected. >> reporter: also tonight, the c.d.c. says two doses of the moderna and pfizer vaccines are more effective at protecting against the coronavirus than one, pushing back at recent studies suggesting the success of a single dose. norah. >> o'donnell: errol barnett,

thank you. and now to those new sexual harassment allegations against new york governor andrew cuomo. tonight the state attorney general is launching an investigation after two former aides accused the governor of misconduct. cuomo says he's sorry if the things he said were misinterpreted. one person says that's not enough. here's cbs' jericka duncan. >> reporter: late this afternoon, charlotte bennett, the second woman to accuse new york governor andrew cuomo of sexual harassment said in a statement that the governor has refused to acknowledge or take responsibility for his predatory behavior. the 25-year-old former executive assistant to the governor claimed cuomo asked if she was romantically involved, whether she was monogamous in her relationships and if she had ever had sex with older men. cuomo attempted to apologize in a statement sunday saying, i now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal, some of the things i

have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. to the extent anyone felt that way, i am sorry. >> that is not an apology. >> reporter: today, new york city mayor bill de blasio joined house speaker nancy pelosi and new york senator kirsten gillibrand in supporting an independent investigation. >> he seemed to be saying, oh, i was justst kidding a around. sexual h harassment t is not fu. >> reporteter: the latatest acaccusations come after another former aide, lindsey boylan, accused cuomo in a blog post of sexually harassing her and creating a hostile work environment. state senator alessandra biaggi worked in the governor's office in 2 2017. >> when a governor of a state asks a young staffer who is 25 years old if she has sex with older men or if she has sex outside of her relationship, that is nonot only inappropriat, it is ababusive. >> reporter: governor cuomo denies allegations of sexual harassment but keep in mind federal investigators are

looking into whether or not his office lied about covid-related deaths in some nursing homes in new york.hs in some nursing homn norah. >> o'donnell: jericka duncan, thank you. tonight, kentucky is under a state of emergency as flood waters continue to rise. parts of the state got more than 6 inches of rain in 48 hours and now streams and rivers are overflowing into neighborhoods. the national guard is helping to rescue people from flooded homes and streets. tennessee and west virginia are also dealing with widespread floods. we want to turn now to mississippi, where communities are still struggling two weeks after the south was hit with those devastating storms. the biggest problem for many is finding clean water. cbs's janet shamlian is there. >> reporter: tonight, frustration is boiling over in jackson after two weeks without water. >> i've had to walk to gas stations just to use the bathroom sometimes. >> reporter: summer williams is eight months pregnant. there's no water coming from her tap.

she has to fill buckets from a faucet at her dad's house 30 minutes away, get it back to her apartment, then boil it just to bathe and cook. >> i'm due soon and the only thing on my mind is how i'm going to handle it when the baby gets here. >> reporter: williams is among the 10,000 without any water, but the entire city, more thanet the entire city, more tha 165,000 people, hasn't had safe drinking watater since t the mid februaryry storm. the subzero temperatures crumbled jackson's aging water system, 80 major water main breaks. pressure so low, it's not reaching some neighborhoods. >> we know that people are suffering and they want it on now. >> reporter: charles williams is director of public works in charge of restoring people's water. >> i think they have every right to be upset, i think they have every right to be frustrated. >> reporter: can you give them any assurances of a date? >> it's just very difficult to try and have a definitive timeline of when we'll get out of this. >> reporter: but for summer williams, time is running out. >> it's hard now, but i know

it's going to be harder by the time my baby gets here. >> reporter: and a sign of the desperation here in jackson tonight, we have seen people pull off the roads, stop, bring buckets over, fill them up with water here to take home because, at this location, they didn't have to wait in line. norah. >> o'donnell: janet shamlian, thank you. and we want to turn now to a growing immigration crisis on the border. tonight there's new concern about the number of unaccompanied minors trying to enter the u.s. from mexico. cbs' weijia jiang joins us from the white house. weijia, i understand this was at the top of the agenda when president biden spoke with the mexican president today. >> reporter: norah, that's right, the two leaders met virtually just a few hours after the homeland security secretary warned migrants to stay away from the border for now because he said the trump administration dismantled the u.s. immigration system. but we obtained a new memo that shows the number of unaccompanied minors at the

border is soaring, with about 200 to 400 a day, and unlike the trump administration that made the children wait in mexico for their cases to be processed, the new policy is to house them in the u.s., but bed space is already 97% full. the agenda also included a lot of talk about the pandemic, and president biden said he would discuss sharing the u.s. supply of the vaccine with mexico, but the white house said that is not going to happen because the priority is making sure every american is vaccinated. norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. tonight, republican lawmakers in dozens of states are taking extreme steps to change voting laws they claim they're trying to prevent fraud. well, democrats accuse them to trying to limit turnout especially among minority groups. fraud. democrats claim they're trying to limit turnout esp here's cbs' ed o'keefe. >> reporter: tonight heated debate in georgia as democrats accuse republicans of making it harder to vote. >> it was predicated on a big fat lie. >> reporter: republicans claimed

fraud in november without evidence and demanded changes like limiting early voting hours.iting early voting hours. >> if you >> if you didn't see confusion this year, i don't know what you saw. >> reporter: it's part of a nationwide push to change election laws by republicans unhappy with the 2020 result. >> this election was rigged. >> reporter: the move endorsed by former president trump in his first speech since leaving office. >> one of the most urgent issues facing the republican party is that of ensuring fair, honest and secure elections! >> reporter: as the former president continued his false claims about last year, republicans in more than 40 states are now pushing more than 250 proposals to curb at least some voter access. in florida, republicans want to limit the use of ballot drop boxes, while in iowa voters could end up with less time to return mail-in ballots. democrat election lawyer marc elias slammed the proposals. >> what we're seeing is an all- out assault on voting. >> reporter: as for whether trump's name will be on a future ballot, he wouldn't commit.

>> we will take back the house, we will win the senate, and then a republican president will make a triumphant return to the white house, and i wonder who that will be? >> reporter: here in washington, house democrats are poised to pass legislation this week that they say expands voting rights, but senate republicans may eventually block it. tomorrow with the u.s. supreme court, justices are set to hear challenges to two arizona election laws, it's a key test of how the now conservative court interprets the voting rights act. norah. >> o'donnell: ed o'keefe, thank you. and we want to turn now overseas because tonight the situation in myanmar, formerly known as burma, has reached a critical and dangerous phase. one month after the military coup, protests have grown enormous and deadly as the generals try to crush dissent. we get more from cbs' ramysh di. more from ramy inocencio in inocencio in beijing. >> reporter: tonightht, armed wh

shields throwing bags of water, anti-coup protesters defied myanmar security forces on yayangon streetsts, not backinin afafter 18 peoplple were killela daday earlier. tear gas canisters hissed past dodging demonstrators, and people ran from police hundreds of hundreds of thousands of pro democracy protesters have been fighting for aung san suu kyi, now detained exactly one month. on monday, a court charged the nobel laureate with two new offenses including inciting public fear and alarm. her lawyer says all charges are trumped up. what do the military leaders want? >> to erase her from the political scene of the country. >> reporter: and her supporters are being killed. as funerals are held, more people are swearing to push back against dictatorship and forward to democracy. ramy inocencio, cbs news, beijing. >> o'donnell: tonight, we're

getting our most revealing account of why prince harry and meghan markle made the extraordinary decision to step back from their royal duties. they opened up to oprah winfrey for an upcoming cbs special. cbs's jamie yuccas has a preview. >> my biggest concern was history repeating itself. >> reporter: prince harry speaks frankly about the parallels of his life and his late mother princess diana. >> i'm relieved and happy to be to be sitting here and talking to you with my wife by my side because i can't begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us but at least we have each other. >> reporter: oprah winfrey asked pointed questions her answers yet to be revealed. >> were you silent or silenced? >> reporter: winfrey asked about a breaking point likely tied to the couple's decision to leave the u.k., something comedian james corden also discussed with harry last week. >> we all know what the british

press could be like and it was destroying my mental health. i was, like, this is toxic. >> reporter: the london tabloids are already slamming the couple's decision to open up. >> either you love them or hate them and they're trying to break free from the narrative constructed by the tabloids. they want to articulate their own vision of their future and remembrance of their past. >> reporter: with their royal duties officially in the past,th their future is adding to their family and living by their own rules. jamie yuccas, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: and "oprah with meghan and harry," a primetime special, airs sunday night at 8:00, 7:00 central, right here on cbs. and there is still much more news ahead tonight on "cbs evening news." a judge couldn't believe that when a surgeon appeared for a virtual trial from the operating room. and lady gaga's dog walker on his brush with death and why he's apologizing.

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